Designing and Executing Information Security Strategies

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Free Online Course: Designing and Executing Information Security Strategies provided by Coursera is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 10 weeks long, 4-6 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge.

Overview
  • This course provides you with opportunities to integrate andapply your information security knowledge.

    This course provides you with opportunities to integrate andapply your information security knowledge. Following the case-study approach,you will be introduced to current, real-world cases developed and presented bythe practitioner community. You will design and execute information assurancestrategies to solve these cases.

    Topics explored include:
    Analysis and problem solving usingcases contracted from real world problems in Information Assuranceincluding:

    • Selection and application of controls
    • Construction of security policies
    • Understanding and application of regulatory requirements
    • Understanding and application of business constraints 
    • Communication of risk to non-information assurance professionals
    • Identification and remediation of new threats
    • Analysis and performance of incident response
    • Communication of Information Assuranceprinciples and concepts
    • Peer reviewed analysis of each case
    • Reading and class explanation of good and bad examples (from news and public sources)
    • Reading and peer discussion of current events in Information Assurance

Syllabus
  • With successful completion of the course students should be able to:

    • Describe the nature of security risk in a business and an IT context
    • Compare and apply several models for security risk assessment
    • Facilitate a risk assessment process and gain consensus on risk-based decisions
    • Incorporate risk assessment into an IT security plan

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